Is anyone else appreciating the irony of nzpost getting their own new youshop address postcode wrong? Just received the email which says they're sorry about it. They're not usually sorry if someone else gets it wrong.

Sooo.... any ideas how I can pay for an eBay purchase which only allows US PayPal verified accounts?

wellygary:

dman:

oh, and also I've heard apparently if you're importing stuff into NZ for educational purposes (for instance if you're a lecturer of a university) you don't need to pay GST!

Sounds like Australia to me, NZ's GST has very few exemptions,

If there was a way to import goods for education without GST I am sure this would be a well used dodge for anyone wanting to buy a New laptop off the web.....

Am not referring to an average Joe just calling themselves a "school" then claiming everything will be without GST. (what a huge loophole that would be!)

I am working for a University and would get it shipped to the University's address, and it would be for the purpose of a course I'm teaching. I think under this very narrow definition it would be ok, while the link you gave is for businesses so isn't relevant.

Who I am: multi time Ironman finisher, University of Auckland graduate, Freelancer (mainly focused on website development, message me for work).

YouShop should never be regarded as an express service, it never has been called that either. It simply is a way to (relatively) cheaply get items to NZ that would've otherwise never shipped here, and for that I love it!

I just tonight order a Chrome book for only US$129.99 direct from Acer to my YouShop address! :-D

dcha160: There are many. Shipito and Comgateway offer it if I remember correctly. Commission is around 8-10%,

Thanks, I'll take a look at those now.

Who I am: multi time Ironman finisher, University of Auckland graduate, Freelancer (mainly focused on website development, message me for work).

Does Amazon still like to ship boxes of air? Wanted to get a Logitech keyboard which I know someone had shipped to NZ a couple of months ago but since then you can't get it shipped to NZ. I smell a Logitech regional price fixing scam.

dman: I just tonight order a Chrome book for only US$129.99 direct from Acer to my YouShop address! :-D

I've been eyeing that deal up as well. Curious to hear what dimensions it comes through as and what YouShop charges you

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Probably by the time you find out the deal will have ran out!

Act now, think later ;-)

Wouldn't be a good idea to wait around... they're already sold nearly four thousand of them in only 24hrs! (and it has been going on for longer than 24hrs too, so who knows how many they've sold in total?)

Personally I spent about two minutes (maybe five minutes max) quickly reading reviews on it (especially in comparison with the US$249 Samgsung Chromebook, which is its closest direct competitor) then purchased it ASAP!

Who I am: multi time Ironman finisher, University of Auckland graduate, Freelancer (mainly focused on website development, message me for work).

dcha160: There are many. Shipito and Comgateway offer it if I remember correctly. Commission is around 8-10%,

Thanks, I'll take a look at those now.

Darn, doesn't seem to be working.... I think the problem is because I have already won the item on eBay via an auction :-/

So can't use these services which supply a US verified PayPal/credit-card payment for those pesky sellers who insist on it.

Were you given a paypal account to send the payment to? Maybe you could try to ask the seller for his/her paypal account email address, send the email address and the item info to your parcel forwarder, and see if they'll help you from there. But before doing that, change the shipping address on your ebay account to the US address you got.

Wouldn't be a good idea to wait around... they're already sold nearly four thousand of them in only 24hrs! (and it has been going on for longer than 24hrs too, so who knows how many they've sold in total?)

Personally I spent about two minutes (maybe five minutes max) quickly reading reviews on it (especially in comparison with the US$249 Samgsung Chromebook, which is its closest direct competitor) then purchased it ASAP!